New Zealand teenager youngest of Norway massacre victims

A New Zealand teenager missing since the horrific shootings on Norway's Utoya
island was confirmed to have been killed in the massacre.

Sharidyn Meegan Ngahiwi Svebakk-Boehn was killed during the shooting at Utoya IslandPhoto: EPA

11:31PM BST 27 Jul 2011

"It is with great sadness and pain that today we got the message we have feared would come through. Our beloved daughter Sharidyn Meegan Ngahiwi Svebakk-Bohn is confirmed dead," her parents said in a statement.

Sharidyn, 14, is believed to be the youngest victim among the 68 people killed by a lone gunman last week.

Anders Behring Breivik has confessed to killing at least 76 people in the shootings on the island and a bomb attack in the Norwegian capital Oslo.

Sharidyn's parents, Vanessa Svebakk and Odd Roger Bohn, said their daughter was born in New Zealand but spent most of her life in Norway.

"She was a beautiful, caring and vibrant girl," the parents said in a statement.

Norwegian police on Wednesday published the names of a further 13 victims of Anders Behring Breivik's attack on Oslo and Utoya Island.

Twelve of those named were among the 68 shot dead on Utoya, the island that was hosting a summer camp run by the youth wing of Norway's ruling Labour Party. Most of the victims were less than 20 years old.

The other victim was one of the eight people killed by Friday's car bomb in central Oslo.

The combined death toll from both attacks stands at 76 people. Police have refused to rule out the possibility of the number rising as they trawl the waters surrounding the island.

Ten of the names released today are teenagers. The youngest, Sharidyn Svebakk-Bohn, was only 14 when Breivik carried out the massacre.

On Tuesday, police named the first four victims. They said they will release the other names once they have been identified and their families informed.

Petter Stordalen, a Norwegian billionaire, has offered to redevelop the island as a haven for international youth democracy.

"Today Utoya is a symbol of a nation in mourning – but I want it once again associated with joy, unity and optimism," the 48-year-old Norwegian hotelier said.

Meanwhile Lisa Engelsrud, 31, who knew Breivik when he was young said he was a “troublesome” child.

She Told The Times that he used to spit in the basement of the block of flats they lived in in west Oslo.